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Old 04-05-2003, 01:20 PM   #1
Montana_70
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Well it turns out I'm not grounded!

Not me! Miss Montana. That serious buzz is still here. Park Management spent some time testing the shore electric connection and checked my electrical plug and it shows "ground". He checked all the connections at the pole and then called an retired electrician in the park. He came over, rechecked the park manager's work and found the same thing.

He then took the meter inside my unit and found it was not grounded at the breaker box. Said I needed a "Case ground". Also said he could install a "jumper wire" to ground me, but he didn't think that would be a good idea for me warranty wise.

So it looks like I will be calling Keystone first thing Monday morning. I hope they will send a tech out. I did not have this problem before I headed for the dealer two weeks ago. While there the two electrical things they did was install a water pump and new sensor panel.

Of course I could have had this problem a lot longer than I think because I learned that the only time I got the "buzz" was when I was barefoot.

I'm rarely barefoot on the concrete slab as I have my flipflops outside at the steps and always slip them on. So...when I got the first buzz from the entry door I had just hooked up to shore power (from my trip to the dealer) slipped off my shoes to go in the unit but did not have my door mat down yet. That's when I got the first buzz from the entry door. Then no buzzes after because I always had my shoes on. Until the other morning. For some reason just went out and opened the side storage, standing on the concret, in my bare feet and got zapped.

The park manager, at first, tried the storage doors and said,"No problem for me". I said take off you shoes, he did and he got zapped.

So what I'm saying is I really can't say when I had this problem because with shoes there's no buzz or zapping.

So the best I can figure this out is Miss Montana is the groud until I touch any metal, shoeless, then I become the ground. Of course I think I must be the ground when I am wearing shoes, I just don't get zapped or buzzed. Doesn't happen inside the unit, but there isn't any metal surfaces, except the sink, that looks metal, but I don't think it really is.

I'm posting all of this in case you might want to do a "Buzz Test" on your unit. Take you shoes off, stand on a nice conducting surface like concrete and take hold of those storage bay levers....no waiting required.....you'll know in an instant whether you are gounded.

2002 2880RL (Miss Montana) towed by 2001 Dodge diesel 3500 (LadyRam)
 
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